working moms

My husband and I both work full time and have two kids (22 months and 5 years). Looking for all the life hacks you have that make everything more manageable. I always feel like I am behind at work and home. The yard, papers (like mail and school papers), and clutter are where I struggle the...

My 5 month old daughter has been in daycare since I went back to work when she was 9 weeks old. It’s a local church that has a fairly large daycare center in it and we had heard nothing but great things when we signed her up. Everywhere around here has such a long waitlist and so when a spot...

Need some very important advice navigating a relationship with a new boss who knows how horrible my old boss was (to some extent). This is a very long read so thankful to those who do and help me 🫶🏼 Long story: I have been at my company almost 3 years. My first year my boss put me on a PIP, she...

I’m 36/F with two kids, 6 and 11. My kids were sick a couple weeks ago. It seemed like a type x cold. I knew that I was probably going to catch it and so sure enough, last week I started getting sick. It started off like a cold but then on day 4 I quickly deteriorated. My throat erupted in a...

I wasn’t as diligent about sleep training w him like I was with his older sister. I have such anxiety that he’ll wake up his sister if I let him cry a lot and also I’m so tired I just end up getting up to feed instead of following thru w the training bc it’s faster in the short term. We went...

OP here: thanks so much to everyone who responded. I pulled through with your help. This even led to some of my best recipes. And I made an easy one up for "fancy" dinners as life got easier: lamb burgers. Chop an onion with a chopper, mix with one pound ground lamb, salt, pepper. Fry...

I'm having a small problem: My kiddo just turned 3 years old. She's been in an amazing family daycare since 6 months old. There's only 6 kids in the daycare, so it's very small and awesome. I've started looking into preschools for the fall. However, our local public school system isn't that...

Mostly venting. I have 3 kids, 5yo twins and a 3 month old. One of my twins is a fantastic sleeper, always has been. The other one has never really slept through the night, and even if he does he’s up before the sun. We have a hatch in their room that lights up at 6:30am, and before baby was...

A couple of weeks ago daycare had me pick up my 9 month old because they said she had a fever of 100.6 when she woke up from a nap. Got home and she was only 97.8 but ended up with RSV two days later so I assumed the low temperature was the fluke. Today daycare had me pick the baby up once...

This is r/workingmoms adjacent, but I’m in the market for a new car and would love y’alls input. I have two kids now who are 2.5 and 4mo. We are planning for a third in the next two years. At that point, my kids will be roughly 5 and 2.5. They attend daycare so they’re in and out of the car...

Like I don’t exist Does anyone else relate to this? They will ignore me, not pay attention. This started when I started showing. I am heavier now post partum and I still notice it. I think they paid more attention when I looked more attractive and put together?

My company asked me to take on a leadership role last year. In one year, the role has grown dramatically. I asked for a pay increase to match the new role. Instead I was told to scale back to the initial job description, which will be horribly inefficient and create several long term problems...

I've always been one to do my hair and makeup. Like every morning I'll wake up early and have fun on my look for the day. This was instilled in me early by my grandma and mom. They would wake early everymornkng and sit at the coffee table with hand mirrors, makeup bags, and coffee. Always up...

hi! i see this question posed here a lot with diff circumstances.. so was hoping to get some advice from people in similar circumstances. i’m in a senior managerial role in consulting, a demanding but somewhat flexible job and i WFH. my husb is in a surgical residency and works 6a-6p ish M-F...

I live in Florida and hate it here for a multitude of reasons. But all of our family is here and it would be really hard to give that up and move elsewhere. I dream of having a summer house in New England but I don’t think it would make a lot of financial sense to buy a second home, especially...

I can’t do this anymore. I am so so tired. I’ve already started inching away from breastfeeding - luckily baby girl takes formula like a champ. Husband sleeps like the dead and doesn’t wake up with the baby. I’ve been giving her 4-5 ounces of formula just before bedtime at 6:30. She has a huge...

Last fall I accepted a promotion with my current employer of 8 years. They agreed to hold the position for me until my baby turns 1 in June and also agreed to hours of 9am-3pm. I’ll have a full-time salary and benefits. The only drawback is that I’ll have to been in office M-F. Luckily the...

My kids are older, with 17yo twins being the oldest, then a 14yo, and the youngest is 10yo. One of the twins, J, struggles socially. He has raging ADHD that he's been medicated for since he was 10, and he's also currently on antidepressants (curse faulty genetics, wish I'd known about my...

Hi all. I made a post about three weeks ago about how much I hated the mornings when I commute. It wasn’t the most popular post but I got such good advice from you all and I can’t believe how much things have changed in such a short time. I remember writing that post feeling like my nerves were...

Hi! I live in AZ and travel for work to Seattle. Read: I have no warm or rain clothes- ESP of the business casual variety. I’m planning to bring a Patagonia nano puff and a lululemon always effortless jacket. Both are quite thin, but the lulu I believe is waterproof and has a hood. Under that...